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,>#& after. A POLITICAL AND LITEltAJlY EEVTEW.
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CHRISTMAS has not interrupted the course of events abroad , or even at home . Ther-e has evidently " been less suspensioa of official activity than usual . Although the day for the Paris Conference is not yet named , the Continental papers
teem with proofs of the stoenuous exertions made by the several Courts to establish a good position in the meeting , and , we suspect * to make it do more than England desires . " While Courts are meeting , -while Princes are plotting , we have bad our own meetings , in the family , in the workhouse . Pantomime has resumed its xeiffn in the
theatres , illustrating more closely than ever the way in winch statesmen do their work . For , while the sage journalist piques himself on being able to tell the world what ' s o ' clock , the agile statesman jistonishes us all b } ' jumping through the clock , and the grim garotter , clown of the streets , treats us all as the ofi-hnnd passenger is treated in the pantomime .
i he meeting of the Conference , we ; trc assured , is only delayed but to be exactly as our Ministers have all along expected , if not bargained—a formal meeting to interpret the 20 th Article , and noLhing else . We shall see . But , in the meanwhile , nothing is more evident than the necessity of a Congress to settle the cuiarrels that distract thii whole of the Continent . The only objection to such a Congress would be , that the peoples would be absent from it . It would constitute a representation only of the grand tieket-of-leave men—those crowned caitiffs who have been ,
convicted already of doing violence and injury to the peoples , find yet go at large . ' Prussia , ' for example , 5 s mustering his forces to perpetrate violence and spoliation in Switzerland . But the Swiss seem likely to make a brave stand ; and the beat hope for them , and for the other peoples of Kurope , is , that Fiiedjcricic " William may persevere ; the worst chance for the peoples is , that other Sovereigns will persuade him to end his Clustering , and to put up with the loss of Neufehiitel rather than to lose tlio tranquillity of the Continent .
of them Tentilate their liberalism and their successes at the dinner given to Mr . Arthuk Kiknaibd by his Perth constituents . In Scotland they have a way of getting up these public dinners like school examinations , where the speakers appear iii portSj and talk history in full dress . The chief incident of ministerial activity before the public just now , is the success of Sir Benjamin Ha ix in bringing the London drainage question to a definitive issue . The Metropolitan
Board of Works' has agreed upon the plan marked B * , which would provide an outfall below Eritli and Purfleet . It has been suggested by Sir MoBroN Peto to . continue the drainage to the German Ocean ; and other plans might be proposed . The metropolis is not bound to go beyond the points indicated ; tliere is no existing-power to carry the works further ; and what Sir Benjamin
proposes is this : lie would submit all the suggestions to three engineers—two . civil and one military—who will be authorized to report upon tlie whole subject ; and their report , together with the formal proceedings of the Metropolitan Board , and the request of that body for an advance of 3 , 000 , 000 ? ., will be laid before the House of Commons for a legislative judgment .
I he finance of next session will be difficult ; for the constituencies are fastening upon the idea that they must get rid of the Income-tax , and a very good idea it is . We have a considerable list of towns this week which have joined in the movement . It would be well for the public to keep in mind four facts which prove the tax to be one
improper for a permanent impost . It can be evaded by dishonesty , mid therefore falls with undue weight upon the honest . It is thus a premium to demoralization . It is paid in large sums at once , —a plan vciy inconvenient and uncongenial to immense numbers of tax payers , who draw their salary nt short periods , and find it so bard to live at all , that it is diilicult to save . It
naged the matter so handsomely , that the entertainment would speak very well for the entire country . Few events which we have witnessed are so calculated to bring the two peoples together . Englishmen have seen the Yankee character travestied in the works of writers who ought to have known better ; but here they had many representatives of the American Republic , and if they could not catch the expression of heartiness ,
energy , and frankness , Englishmen themselves must have lost their own sense of those qualities . There is moi-e positive action on the other side of the Atlantic than remains for the average share of life in England ; there is , therefore , in some degree , a certain force in the American manner which , to our over-polished habits , looks like ' roughness ; ' but we see the same thing in the English sailor , and prize it ; and the main qualities of the two nations are the same . We have immense common interest * . It may' be said that a largo mass of English property exists in the Union , and that an immense amount of American property exists here ; for the manufacturers of England draw their value from American sale , and much cotton of the South would be worthless were it not for English consumption . In proportion ns the people are' brought together , their Governments will be prevented from setting them at loggerheads ; and when they have the avowal of an earnest desire for friendliness from men of approved independence and courage , like Captain Haiitstein , —when they bear tlie republican Lieutenant \ Vjsx , f . s avowing the satisfaction which he felt at tlie reception of Americans from the Queen and people of this country , —when they have the American Consul , Mr . Crosskky , urging English and American mothers to teach their children that " Anglo-Saxons" should not . " bark and bite , " — when they see a Dr . Otis confessing that the labours of a Franklin wcihj equally beneficial to America and to England , —the English people will find how untrue are the assertions of republican pride or Yankee jealousy .
necessitates a disgusting and injurious inquisition into private nilitirs ; an inquisition which is sometimes used unjustly if not vindictively . It is , aa so many a meeting lms pronounced it to be , unjust , uneconomical , despotic , and un-English . There is , indeed , no snying how far the habit of lying evasion engendered by the Incomc-tax _ inajr not have assisted in producing the whok ^^ O _ jdji *^ N , , ..., honesty that shows itself in so mmyg $ i ^* i ? ' ffl $ } v , <) ,.-have this week scarcely a more n ^ or ^^ Jw : " ^^ ^ ' -:,: ' towns protesting than of defrauds , fl ^ fi ^^ Bwfc '; ' !!^ i , n and dofalcators . We cast aside flfib -jfcnu&vtitow . 7 * ' 7 j * 3 •' yl' ^ VXv ^ :- - - ' !" " * r , T . C ' -si-V ; ' ¦• ~ - ' ¦'•' ' !' ¦ ' : > !» H ^ gggJS **
Before an entertainment like this , a simple compliment to Admiral Sir Houston Stewart sinks into insignificance . It is rather late to be repeating these compliments for the war of the Crimea ; especially if our officials are about to stultify all the victories of that war in a Paris Conference , or to burlesque our vindication of Tiirke }' by a betrayal of Switzerland . Ministers , however , have * come out strong' at some of these dinners ; most especially did some
The civic banquet given by the corporation oi Portsmouth to Captain IIa-htstein and the American officers of the llcsoluto has necessarily been made to do duty for the whole public , since he departs so soon ; but the Portsmouth men ma «
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- . mob WatooTTrade .... 1233 Last Cl . ristmas-daj- 1237 Twelve Mouths with ftlie BasMUiinquet to Admiral Sir Houston ^ vJi ^ twTV" ;"""""'" - ^ o The . CoscofMr . Henry Cort ......... 1237 Bazouks ........... 1245 ¦ ¦ ¦ T . 5 ^ S&&Stei-uK "" - iSS ¦ . SSastfoJS ^• :::::::::::::::::::: It - open council-- - *<«**¦> **«»«* ..... il £ fllo M ^ r 5 lP aS ? 3 StH 5 ' "" " lg 7 - Postscript . ...... I 1284 Bemedies for Crime 1288 THEARTS-. Ireland ........... 1227 public affairs LITERATURE- - M- Jullien's llal MasquS . .. 1244 America . 1227 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Summary 1 * 39 r Hi « Pantomimes and liurlcsqucs . 1244 r i n ^^ fo v ^ ? - " -- •"¦ ' - Hoo > SvyitzcTland , France , and Prussia . 1235 ''' Tlio . £ arly * ¥ iemteh PaVntJers " . " ^' . " . l 2 S 9 ' Tlic Ga 7 etto 1944 Continental Notes .... 1228 ; Christmas Games ; . 1285 Letters from Head-quarters ....... 1240 Gazette 1244 Our Civilization ............ ..... 1- ^ Elections under the Empire .. . 1236 Christmas Novel s and Talcs ......... 12 U COMMERCIAL AFFAlRs-Accidents aud Sudden Deaths ,. . 1282 ! The Ditcher Decision 12 S 7 I Baden Powell 011 Creation ...... 1242 .. 'City Intelligence , Markets , &c .:....-ISMS ' - N 0 E
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VOt ; VII . No . 353 ] SATURBAY , DECEMBER 27 , 1856 . PRicac { S ^™'' : IS ^ -
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 27, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2173/page/1/
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